Belle Dog

This is nurse Belle Dog making sure her Mommy is ok after surgery.

Belle Dog and Gabriella going for a walk in the wagon.

Belle Dog was such a sweet dog. She was always happy to see us and she always thought she was still a puppy. She loved to chase squirrels and bark at birds and anyone walking by. She sounded like a good guard dog, but she really was just a gentle dog. She would bark ferociously at people she didn't know, but if they went to pet her, she would put her tail between her legs and wait patiently as they rubbed her head. She was great with the girls. Gabriella would take Belle on "walks" around the house and the back yard and they would play chase together all the time. Adelynn was just starting to get to know how great Belle Dog was. She would look for her from her chair while she was eating and feed her whatever she didn't want anymore, then laugh because she thought it was great that the dog would eat from her hand or what she threw on the floor. Belle loved to go for rides in the car and play in the water. She would always howl when the firetrucks would drive by and when Gabriella was a baby I would have to run to the door to let Belle Dog out so her howling wouldn't wake her up. I still wait to hear her whenever I hear a firetruck. Belle loved Billy Cat too. She thought it was her job to harass him when he was doing something he wan't supposed to do. Belle Dog and Billy Cat never understood each other. Billy's tail would twitch when he was mad at Belle, so she thought he wanted to play. Belle always talked to Billy while she was pretending to eat his head and Billy would hiss and growl and bat at her with his paws, so Belle thought he liked it! Belle spent her 8 years with us from the time she was just a puppy. I will miss her and think about her often, but at least now she is no longer in pain.